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The E5 series is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East); it was introduced on Tohoku Shinkansen services on 5 March 2011 [6] and on Hokkaido Shinkansen services on 26 March 2016. A total of 59 10-car sets are on order, with three sets in service in time for the start of new Hayabusa services to Shin-Aomori in March 2011.
The Shinkansen (Japanese: 新幹線, [ɕiŋkaꜜɰ̃seɴ] ⓘ, lit. ' new trunk line '), colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. It was initially built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development.
The new shinkansen Hayabusa services use 10-car E5 series sets, which initially operated at a maximum speed of 300 km/h (185 mp/h) between Utsunomiya and Morioka. [1] The maximum speed was raised to 320 km/h (200 mp/h) from the start of the revised timetable on 16 March 2013. [ 7 ]
In July 2023, the NHSRC opened a tender for the supply of twenty-four enhanced E5 Series Shinkansen train-sets, [97] [98] of which 6 were to be assembled in India. [99] NHSRC had sought E5 train sets modified to operate under Indian weather.
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.
Hayate (はやて) is a high-speed Shinkansen service operated in Japan, on the Tōhoku Shinkansen by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) since 2002 and on the Hokkaido Shinkansen by JR Hokkaido since 26 March 2016. It operates as far as the northern terminus of Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, and it is the second-fastest service on the Tohoku ...
An E6 series shinkansen, May 2022. Since 15 March 2014, most Komachi services have operated by seven-car E6 series trainsets with running at a maximum speed of 320 km/h (200 mph) on the Tohoku Shinkansen coupled to E5 series Hayabusa trainsets. [2] Car 11, the "Green" (first class) car, is at the Tokyo end. All seats are reserved and no-smoking ...
Pages in category "Shinkansen train series" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... E5 and H5 Series Shinkansen; E6 Series Shinkansen;